Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite: What $99 Buys vs E5 Plus Add-ons

Microsoft's product page for Microsoft 365 E7 lists four components: Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft Entra Suite, with Teams included and a "no Teams" variant alongside. Microsoft announced it on 9 March 2026 under the "Frontier Suite" name, and its partner blog recorded general availability of E7 and Agent 365 on 1 May 2026. Microsoft Learn's licensing comparison summarizes it in one line: E7 is E5 plus Microsoft 365 Copilot plus Microsoft Entra Suite plus Agent 365 in a single SKU.

The prices, Microsoft list price, October 2026 price list:

• Microsoft 365 E7: $99.00 per user per month on an annual commitment ($1,188.00 per user per year), or $118.80 per month with no commitment. Listed since 1 May 2026.
• The same price list carries a Microsoft 365 E7 (No Teams) row and a three-year term; the No Teams row is $1,085.40 per user per year ($90.45 per month) and the three-year term is $3,564.00 per user, $99.00 per month.

The No Teams variant exists because Microsoft sells enterprise suites with and without Teams; a tenant that already licenses Teams separately should price both. Everything below uses the Teams-included row.

E5, Copilot and Entra Suite add up to $102.00 per user per month before Agent 365, which is the number E7 should be compared with. Microsoft's Entra Suite page says the suite is sold on its own or as part of E7, and its security blog describes Agent 365 as the layer that lets IT and security teams observe, govern and secure agents across the organization; neither is an E5 feature, so a tenant that wants them on E5 buys them separately.

Two comparisons decide most cases, per user per month on an annual term:

• E5 plus Copilot is $90.00. E7 at $99.00 is $9.00 more, or $108.00 per user per year, and for that you receive Entra Suite and Agent 365.
• E5 plus Copilot plus Entra Suite is $102.00. E7 is $3.00 less, or $36.00 per user per year, and Agent 365 comes with it.

The decision rule follows from the table. If the users in question would be licensed for Entra Suite anyway, because you are replacing a VPN with Private Access, filtering web traffic with Internet Access, or running access reviews and entitlement management across the company, E7 is the cheaper way to buy the set. If they would not, E7 costs $108.00 per user per year more than E5 plus Copilot for two products that sit unused. Nothing in the bundle is cheaper than leaving a component out; the only saving is the $36.00 against buying all three.

A tenant on Microsoft 365 E3 ($39.00) looks at a bigger step, and it is really two decisions wearing one price tag: do these users need Copilot, and do they need E5.

E7 is $30.00 per user per month more than E3 plus Copilot, which is $36,000 per year at 100 users for the E5 security and compliance stack, Entra Suite and Agent 365. Against the fully built E3 (Copilot plus the three suites), E7 is $6.00 per user per month less and also carries Entra ID P2, Teams Phone Standard, Audio Conferencing and Power BI Pro. An E3 tenant that does not want Copilot for a given user should not be looking at E7 for that user at all; the E5 question stands on its own, and our E3 versus E5 and E5 add-on math articles work it through.

E7 is built for a user who will consume all four parts in the same quarter. In practice that is:

• Knowledge workers already on E5 who have a working Copilot habit, in an organization that has decided to replace its VPN with Entra Private Access or to run Entra ID Governance access reviews.
• Organizations building agents in Copilot Studio for more than one team, where Agent 365's inventory and access control are the governance layer the security team asked for.
• Regulated firms that already pay for Entra ID Governance or Entra ID Protection in addition to E5 and would add Copilot anyway.

E7 is not for:

• Frontline staff on F1 or F3, who are neither on E5 nor Copilot candidates.
• Users with no Copilot adoption plan; Copilot's $30.00 is the largest piece of the premium and it earns nothing unassigned to a habit.
• Organizations under 300 users on the Business plans. There is no Business-tier E7; the comparable path is Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot at $32.00 or Business Premium ($22.00) plus Copilot Business ($21.00).
• Tenants that have not cleaned up SharePoint oversharing. Copilot and agents retrieve whatever the user already has permission to open, so the first E7 seats in a tenant with years of permissive sharing make that content easier to find, not safer.

Licenses are assigned per user, so E7 for the 20 people who meet the rule above and E5 for the other 80 is the normal shape, not a compromise. Three NCE mechanics matter when you buy:

1. Annual terms add seats at any time and reduce them only at renewal, so put the E7 seats on a term that ends on the same date as the E5 subscription they replace, or you pay for both until the E5 term ends.
2. Monthly no-commitment seats exist for E7 at $118.80 and do not exist for standalone Copilot, which is annual only on the October 2026 price list. A three-month E7 pilot for ten users is therefore a monthly E7 subscription, not an annual Copilot one.
3. A new subscription can be canceled within seven days of purchase for a prorated credit; after that the term stands. Decide the seat count before the order, not after.

Partner Center supports upgrading an existing subscription to a higher SKU mid-term where Microsoft lists it as an eligible upgrade path; have the path confirmed on your E5 subscription before you buy E7 as a separate line, because the two approaches land on different renewal dates.

1. Copilot readiness. Measure oversharing, stale guests and unlabeled sensitive content before the first seat; the Microsoft 365 Copilot Oversharing Assessment and Remediation ($4,950 per project) produces the numbers.
2. Agent governance. Decide who may publish an agent, what data it may reach and how it is retired; AI Agent Inventory and Lifecycle Governance Implementation ($4,950 per project) sets that up in Agent 365 and Copilot Studio.
3. Entra Suite deployment. Private Access needs connectors and application segments, Internet Access needs policies and the client; without a plan the $12.00 component is shelfware. Microsoft Entra Private Access VPN Replacement ($3,950 per project) is the pilot.
4. Teams or No Teams, and the renewal date alignment from the section above.
5. The fit itself: which users meet the four-part rule, what each alternative costs for your seat counts, and the order of the work. That is the Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite Readiness Assessment ($3,950).

Metered usage sits outside every per-seat price: Copilot Studio messages, agent runs beyond what the licenses include, and Azure consumption behind custom agents are Microsoft's charges, on your bill. IT Partner's services are quoted in writing before work begins.

Is Microsoft 365 E7 a real product?

Yes. Microsoft announced it on 9 March 2026, its partner blog recorded general availability on 1 May 2026, and it has been on Microsoft's price list since 1 May 2026 at $99.00 per user per month on an annual commitment. Microsoft's product page lists E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and Entra Suite as its components.

What does E7 cost per user per year?

$1,188.00 on an annual commitment, Microsoft list price from the October 2026 price list. The monthly no-commitment price is $118.80, the No Teams variant is $1,085.40 per user per year and the three-year term is $3,564.00 per user ($99.00 per month).

Is E7 cheaper than buying E5, Copilot and Entra Suite separately?

By $3.00 per user per month: the three list at $102.00 together and E7 is $99.00, with Agent 365 included. Against E5 plus Copilot alone ($90.00), E7 costs $9.00 more per user per month.

Does E7 include Security Copilot or Copilot Studio capacity?

Microsoft lists four components: E5, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and Entra Suite. Security Copilot is not among them, and agent run-time usage beyond what those licenses include is metered separately as Microsoft's charge on your bill.

Is there an E7 for organizations under 300 users?

No. E7 is an enterprise suite. Organizations on the Business plans compare Business Premium with Copilot at $32.00 against Business Premium at $22.00 plus Copilot Business at $21.00, all per user per month on an annual term.

Do I lose anything moving a user from E5 to E7?

No. E7 contains the full E5 suite, so the move adds Copilot, Entra Suite and Agent 365 and removes nothing. The point to watch is the renewal date of the E5 seat you are replacing.

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• Now generally available: Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 — Microsoft Tech Community, Partner Blog, checked 2026-10-11
• Partner Blog: Introducing Microsoft 365 E7, the Frontier Suite — Microsoft Tech Community, checked 2026-10-11
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• Microsoft Entra Suite — Microsoft, checked 2026-10-11
• Secure agentic AI for your Frontier Transformation — Microsoft Security Blog, 9 March 2026, checked 2026-10-11
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